Jessica is a recent graduate from the lab but is continuing to work with us as a Research Scientist. Her PhD research focused on the characterization of non-suicidal self-injury and self-harm within a social computing context and connecting these online signals with a patient population. She is currently investigating how social computing activities can be captured by diagnostic tools, allowing healthcare professionals to better understand the breadth and depth of the digital contexts of their mental disease. She is currently a Senior Research Scientist and Manager of the Health Services and Informatics Research Lab at Parkview Health. She holds a B.S. and M.S. in International Affairs from Georgia Tech. She also worked as a Senior Research Scientist at the Georgia Tech Research Institute for 14 years. Her research areas include human-computer interaction (HCI), health services, computer supported cooperative work (CSCW), and social computing.
